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: i h 7- I n I i r. ,.'.i:.1A..h.,.i 3ri i f" ' I fir I -A fa v , I tai.--. -- y ., Ft r t ' . - -".it j. r ' - - -'-YJ&r A M -W "N. r',., a. W ts;: I I -sat J 1 f:l - -vr . ' JOLXX EN. JOHNSON WRITES. Ij- 5VS TH waiv ao ruiv tnuiii 4SDCUAHACTE1U.ES ITS HEROES AS JIERCENA1UES. Senator M. C. Hutler lias rocoived n ...i u II..., T T .l tcriruin wimii iiuiuj uintiuii, lio coinii)iii)(li'd tho Jlaryland troops in Ie Confodiiriito army, fonccniiiif; the lotrst uiiiue vy i.iovcnidr . iicavor, 01 'eDnsylvttiiia, and Abu Piittcrsoti Post, I, A. 11., of Allegheny City, against the tclion of the Confederate monument on etlysbuvg battlofield by the Second Earjland regiment, which Senator Butler severely denounced in his oration at b reunion of Confederate survivors. After giving the history of the efforts j raise the funds for tho monument, its rectioD and inscription and thfi objec- Iobs f the Monument Association, he Wis his opinion on the war and the men the Union side. He says : 'I thank God that you and I and our miracles have lived in the heroic age of lie republic we marched with Lee and Jtood with "Stonewall" and rode with tuart, and to the remotest generations posterity will tell the story as we tell now If Thermopyl.'c and of Bannockburn. IVhat prouder heritage can we leave our hildren and our children's children than lie sabres we bore ? "Information, observation and reflec- ion for twenty-four yours have convinced' that the war would never have been reed against the South except for the rofit there was in it and that the agita tion against us is carried on since only lor the pensions that are now to be got. The ar was a contractors' war and the agita tion is a bounty pension agitation. Let pem write their own history; we have pade ours. Mercenaries have enlisted in every war since the beginning of time and iky have their place. Fortitude, fideli tj, endurance, devotion to high ideals of truth arid honor have their place, too, and in the days of trial that will surely come, when belief in God and truth mid justice and right must stand against worship of Mammon, lust of gold and greediness of matei idlism, in defence of the rights of the people against the power of the plutocracy, then the whole world will turn for assistance and relief to the men whose ancestors on so ninny battle- Is, by o much blood and sulfeiiug erty, testified their devotion to liberty, to order, to truth and right." Cmmuentin on the above liter Sena- 'tor Butler says: "I leave it to speak it r il-lf I would much rather be the d ad lions whom this shaft was intended to couiiiieimuorate than the live animals practicing their heels against, the Seeoud Maryland monument." A TRANSPARENT MAN. HIS HONES AND AUTEHIES CAN HE SEEN. Ivnn Dzarscliky OihdT, from Buda Pwth, has urrived in New York, and "ill be exhibited in a museum. He is known as the '-transparent man," and his case has interested some of the great est luedicul authorities of Germany, along whom are Dm VirchoWaud lier "Muu, yf Berlin, pbysiciaus to the royal Tha peculiarity of Hcrr Orl.ll' h is that the bones of his legs, which re Very small and ihin aud greatly de formed, are so soft and cartiJaginous that 'th the aid of a candle or other light in darkened room one can look right trough thu liujbs aod observe the work ,neS of the blood vessels, both veins and arteries, which run through the bony hssue. He is not exactly transparent hut he i certainly translucent, aud a "umber of physicians who met the little bellow were very much astonished at what they saw. According to the modi- authorities thn softeuing of thebones, hich seemed to begin when he was a year old, ia extending over, his wholo system, and in a few years he will be per fectly limp and helpless. They say it is "8 to the loss of the chalky substance 'ho bony tissue, and it has already "we or less .-.'ircet.u wh.de skeleton,'' CHEAP LIGHT AND POWER A SIMPLE APPLICATION )V ELECTRIC SCIENCE. Bottled daylight is a desideratum, but if the discoveries of Mr. W. F. Ladd, of Galveston, Texas, as reported in the News of that city prove to be as valuable in practical application as they are reported to appear from the standpoint of experi ment, Hdison must yield the wizard's wand to the Texan inventor, who, it is claimed, has solved the central of electro dynamics, namely, the supplying of pow er and light at a nominal cost. The search for the primary battery has been as patient and as baffling as that of the alchemists for the "philoso pher's stone." The dynamo has replaced Davy's cells, and the carbon loops and points his charcoal spinters, but the original problem of tho effective primary battery has thus far remained unsolved. The conditions of the problem are known to the utmost nicety, but repeated failures have caused it to be ranked with that of perpetual motion, to be solved, if ever, by chance. The battery employed by Mr. Ladd, however, is claimed to meet and satisfy all the conditions of' the problem aod afford all the utility and power poss essed by the costly dynamic machines, and that, too, at a ridiculously low cost. A battery of four small cells ran a sew ing machine, kept electric lights of vari ous powers burning, operated electric mo tors and performed other work requiring dynamic outCts. The representative of the Galveston News, who witnessed the the working of the battery, described it as follows: "It possesses all the useful ness and power of the cumbrous dynam ic machines, while its cost is ridiculously low. It renders electrie lighting cheaper than coal oil or gas, while it offers a mo tive power which the poorest workman can command. With the dynamo, tho storage batterv and the incandescent lamp, the scientific and industrial world might well have been content, and yet tho dis covery of this primary battery shows how little reason it had to be. The bat tery is a marvel of compactness and sim plicity a little box, scarcely larger than a cigar box. The elements employed are zinc and carbon. The zinc plates measure 3 by 31 inches, giving n surface of 21 s(uare inches. The carbon is a rod 5 inches long and 2 of an inch in di nmoter. The zinc is suspended from its centre by means of a copper hook, and is completely immersed in the fluid. The solutions for the battery are: For the outer cell containing the zinc, 1 part strong sulphuric acid to 15 parts water! for the inner cell ( r porous cup the.-olutiou is prepared by mixing 8 parts sulphu ic acid with 7 of water, and when cool adding Chili saltpetre to saturation. That is the whole thing " The salient merits of the battery are said to be its effectiveness, its cheapness and its absolute safety as it generates a low tension current. Mr. Ladd is report ed to be organizing a company to develop his invention, the application of which will be looked for with interest. Manu-factum-' AYtwi. I'Ymiile Meanly. It is a fortuuule thing that all men do not have the BamctT;te in fermdo beauty, for otherwise they would all full in love with the same woman, which would be awkward. Although the preferences of men fur different styles of feature vary reatly it is, undoubtedly, a fact that an appearance indicative of health is pleas ing to all alike. A woman may be with mi! regular feature yet, if healthy, she will be beautiful to someone and pleasing to all. A sallow complexion, a dull eye, a system debilitated by unnatural dis charges in shor, all the ills attendant upon the irregularities aud ''weakness" peculiar to the sex, cau be banished by the use of Dr. IVroes Favorite Prescrip tion. Ask your druggist. It Is to be a furry winter, if the fur men are good prophets. "Will you darn my stockings?" is the latest way of poping the question. No need! of wn'Mne: new rps"hi'in for 181)0; the I'M s.'t serve veiy purpose. WELDON, N. C, TliUllSDAY, DECEMBER 5, A DEADLY CYCLONE. I'ltOPEltTV DBSTROVEl) AND PEOPLE KILLED IN 1SEAUKOHT COUNTY. A terrible cyclone, carrying death and destruction upon its wings, swept over a portion of lleaiif'ort county on Thurs day. Ileports so far received show that nine persons were killed by it, and that more than twenty were injured. It started in the upper or northern portion of the county and carried everything be fore it, cutting a swath a half a mile wide through timber and strewing farms with debris. Large oaks were uprooted and carried hundreds of yards by the wind, and cottou fields were swept, clean not even a stalk or root being left. Farm houses were blown to atoms, and the in mates in many iustaneea bad narrow es capes from death. Farmer Wesley Edwards heard the roar of the cyclone in the distance and called his family into the house. The family consisted of husband, wife and four children. The eldest, Miss Fdlen was to have been married Friday to a neighboring farmer. When they saw that the cyclone was moving directly to wards the house the members of the family sought safety in flight, but it was then too late. The storm was upon them and the house and outbuildings were swept away like chaff. Father, mother and children were lifted high by tho whirling wind and then dropped back to earth dead 500 yards further on. Edwards' body was found impaled on the limb of a fallen tree. II is wife's body was found near by. The children had been carried some distance further and their bodies were terribly mutilated. Mrs. Edward's clothing had been completely torn from her and a heavy tree had fall en across her body. Near the village of Washington the storm struck a wooden waro factory where : many hands were employed. The npise of the machinery and the puffing of the engine prevented the workmen hearing the approach of the cyclone until it was upon thpni. The factory collapsed like a house of cards, and Joseph Klmerson and Thomas Col lins were struck by flying timbers and in stantly killed. A dozen others whose names cannot be learned were badly ir. jured and some will die. The factory was swept entirely away, nothing being left to mark the spot where it stood ex cept a few of the foundation stones. About a mile further on the cyclone over took Miss Mattie Cleve, a youm: girl who was returning from a visit to a neighbor's. She was whirled up into the air aud is supposed to have perished. Her body has not yet been found. The cyclone was beyond doubt the most do-tructive ever known in this State. The total damage cannot yet be estima ted, but it will exceed 830,000. BAD FOR TRUSTS. Trusts have received another deadly blow in the decision of the Illinois Su preme Court in the Chicago Gas case The companies propose to try another combination in tho hope of avoiding or evading tho law as just interpreted by Judge Magruder. Cut thu outlook is not encouraging for them. The principles proclaimed at Ottawa are as broad as they are wholesome. The Court declares that a combination to crush out competition, advance prices aud establish a monopoly is contrary to public policy and the law of the land. Any combine, either of gas companies or any other concerns formed for that pur pose or producing that effect, cannot hereafter flourish in the State of Illino is. The decision follows those rendered iu this city by Judge Uarrett and the Gen eral Term. It accord with popular senti ment throughout the country and is an other victory of the people over grasping trade barons. New York Herald. The proprietors of 1$. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) are among the foremost business men of Atlanta, Ga. They are men of conscience, men of integrity, and men of wealth. Every testimonial found prin'ed in our paper they gnaruiitee to be true and uov 14-lmo. THE NEWSOUTH. A It ECOliN ITION OV Mil. IIHADY AS ITS EXEMPLAR AND ECLOOIST. llev. Sam Small, in his lecture, "Is Our Civilization a Failure?'' recently de livered before great audiences in the uorth and west, says : 'It has lately pleased some of the ir recoiieilablesof the public press in the north to sneer at what they denominate 'southern civilization' or rather, the lack of civilization in the South, Seiz ing with avidity upon sonio isolated out break of criminality or brutality, reported aud often villainously magnified, from some Southern locaii.y, they parade the sorry spectacle as a proof of total deprav ity of the Southern people. Then comes the sneer: ''And all this in Mr. Grady's wonderful new South!" "I take courage from your com men sense to unqualifiedly denounce the spirit aud implications of such publications. "I declare to you that Mr. Henry WT. Grady, the brilliant and eloquent editor of the Atlanta Constitution, published iu my home city, has not misstated the facts nor overdrawn the picture of that new South of which he is, in his own person and career both the exemplar and the eulogist. When he thrilled the guests at the New England dinner and spoke with forceful eloquence to the celebrants of our constitution's centennial, he voiced the sentiments of ih .' people for whom he spoke, and the enthusiasm aroused by his speeches throughout the north was not more general than the indorsement given to his words by his own people. Himself a scholar in that hard school of poverty that taught its alphabet of toil and independence amid the ash heaps that marked Sherman's 'march to the sea,' Mr. Grady knows the feelings, de sires and aims these experiences engen dered in the hearts of his compatriots. That 'New South' that materialized in magic splendor before the minds of his auditors, as he pictured its birth, rise and progress; its resources, reclamations and riches; its high principles, its practi cal progress, its uupensioned patriotism and fidelity, was a photograph not sim ply a panegyric not purely a prophe cy. "The South of to-day is a now South iu every wise, truthful and jmtii. tic sense Its patriotism is profound in honor and hangs upon no other gage of gold. Its interests in tlie public welfare is sincere and imn sectional. Its purpose to do its part in public duty and for the national prosperity and glory is unimpeachable. PuMi'! order is as precious to us as it caubetoyou. The sanctity of person, property and life is as great a concern iu the south as in the nonh. The blud geon of thu brutal is non-partisan; the knife and pistol of the assassin is tioti seetintial; the rope of Judge Lynch os cillates with impartial fatality across the border once marked by Mason and Dix- j on's line. The northern States have luobb'.td to death as many negroes per State iu thepat. niuo months as have the Southern States. Tlio uimiual records of th ; North are blacker in proportion than those of the South Female virtue is hell in lighter estimation in the Nort!i bv the records of prostitution; the mar ria! relation is more lightly worn by the j records of your divorce courts; lidneiary trusts are more fro pieiitly violated, as ( shown by the register of the exiles in Canada. It has been a popular delusion in the N'urtli that 'thechi'.l occupation of the Sou; hern lu.m is.to s'oar, drink whis ky and shoot niggers f.r pastime. Yet the cold and undeniable taet lis that pub lie profanity is far more geneial in the North than in the South; Sabbath des ecration is far more Migrant; and the North drinks more whisky aud beer per capita than any of the people of the south. Tlie populations of Ohio and Georgia are as live to three; yet Ohio has 14,213 liquor dealers to 1,4G7 in Geor gia; one dealer in Ohio to every 200 of her people, an I only one dealer iu Geor gia to every 1,302 of her people; one desW . in Ohio to ''very fifty voters, aod oliy jui dealer iu Georgia to every 1889. 27G voters. How do you like the show ing? 'O,' you say, 'that is a forced in stance.' Is it indeed? Massachusetts and North Carolina have about the same pop ulation. Massachusetts has one liquor dealer to every 257 of her people, wdiile Noith Carolina has one dealer to every 1,482 of her population. So I might project the same comparisons through a dozen instances. 'Georgia has hanged a white man for the murder of a harmless negro mm; the fashionable women of New York city have kissed and decked with flowers in profusion the brutal negro murderer of a weak and aged white woman. 'These are but hap-hazard facts, com ing easily to mind, to teach us the wis dom of charity and tho virtue of consis tency. There is great need and great room for many reforms in tho ways and works of the north as well as the South. Let us not be so quick to accuse and so eager to denounce one another. The civilization of the new South is certainly not behind, if it is not in advance of the average civilization of the land at large. Indeed, I may say that the new South to-day make profert of itself, in naked honesty, to vindicate the presentation of its character as made by the fervent af fection and gifted tongue of Mr. Grady." ANNEXATION OF CUBA. CUBANS FAVOR THE IDEA OF BECOMING PART OF THE UNITED STATES. The Marquis del Ileal Sorocco is a wealthy Cuban who spends considerable time in New York, where he is now quartered at the Marlboro. lie is large ly interested in sugar manufacture, and notwithstanding a long line of blue blooded ancestry, is a good deal of a democrat and an annexationist. "The sentiment of the business men of Cuba is for annexation with the United States if it can be brought about," he said some days ago. "They feel that no thing else would so materially develop tho great natural resources of the island. No richer soil, no finer tropical climate, and no finer people exist in the world than in Cuba, aud, while she is rich and prosperous, not half her resources have been developed to the extent to which they are capable. Our people like the Americans They feel that the real mar ket for (heir products is in the United States, and this country furni-hes what we want. The advantage of commercial union is apparent to everyone, and is the parent of Mie feeling for a stronger union. Cuba's proximity to the United States is another reason for the prevalent feeling for annexation, which Cubans believe is not far off. With the added volume of trade which that would open up, and t ic influx of northern dollars backed by northern enterprise and northern business methods, there would be immense finan cial benefit to both, and ultimately closer rola'i.ms. either com uerci il or political, must be brought about." New Yoik SV''. Curability el' t'onsiiiiii!ioiu This has been a vexed question mm n.' physicians, opinions, even in the sainn schoul, being strangely divergent. Ui this, however, the public are eoininccil; ir is a t'tribly prevalent di-ease, mid the average doctor meets w.L but scant Mi'Vessiii treating it. Cousuuifli'Ui i.-t in rja'ity scrofula ofthelunns and is liable in attack any nhose blood u tainted. Fr driving out the scrofulous humors, and thus removing the predisposing cause Dr. Fierce 's Golden Medical Discovery is a sovereign remedy. It purifies bad blood, heals scrofulous ulcers, t,nd what ever difference of opinion exists as to curing advanced eases of consumption, it remains that many pronounced ''incura ble" have been by it brought back from the brink or the grave to rctt red health and vigor. A Wise Discipline Hard work and faith are the only sre foundation of a useful life. It takes patience to wait for a tree to grow and bear fruit; patient e to sow grain and wait for it to ripen; patience to earn bread by toil. But patience is a wise discipline It puts a curb bit. in the jaws of rsion. It forces philophy and promts iuith iu a su perhuman resource. SO. 38. N. C. CONFERENCE. PROCEEDINGS AT ITS ANNUAL SESSION 1! OREENSUOltO LAST WEEK. The one hundred and fourth annual session of tho North Carolina Methodist Episcopal Conference, South, convened in Greensboro on Wednesday the 27th ult., at f) o'clock a. in,, in West Market Street church, Bishop 11. K. Hargrove in the chair. After religious services, c inducted by the Bishop, the Hon. I). W. Bain called the roll, after which, ou motion Mr. D W. Bain, was elected Secretary, Revs. N. M. Jurney and W. L. Cunninggim as sistant secretaries. W. II. Branson, Revs. R. 15. John and W. W. Rose were elected statistical secretaries. The usual standing Committees were appointed. The Bishop made a personal appeal to the Conference for a Parsonage some where in California, and the preachers gave him 8S0.00. Then Bishop llolsey of the colored Methodist Episcopal Church was intro duced and lie addressed the Conference in reference to Paine Institute. Dr. J. 1). Barbae submitted bis report of the business and financial condition of the publishing house at Nashville. A communication was read to the Conference from W. C. Dunlap, stating that he was compiling a history of the gospel among the slaves before the late Civil war, asking for such information as any member of the Conference might have in preaching to slaves before the war. Dr. T. M. Jones, President of Greens boro Female College, read his annual re port. He stated that tho Marvin Missionary Society in the college has selected a young lady to be euucaled for foreign missiona ry work, and they have a young lady who is now in the junior class, and when she finishes her course another will be selected. A collection was taken for the Oxford Orphan Asylum aud 300 was contribu ted. SECOND DAY. On motion of Dr. Yates the secreta ries were appointed a committee on the publication of the minutes. l!ev. (J. V. Ivey reported on the ease of Rev. i l. O. (Jaunt and stated that af ter prayerful investigation they find noth ing against him and his character passed. Rev. J. T. Ilairis presented a paper meoion-.lizing the General Conl'ireiuc to so change the. Discipline as to make it the duty of tho pastors to organize missionary societies in their respective charges. Rev. J. D Arnold presented a memo rial to the General C tifcrenee reeotii iiii iiding that the President of each Coo itrence Missionary BoHrd be appointed by the Bishop, and not elected by mem bers i f the Boaid as is now the cac. Rev. J. F. Crowell, President of Trin ity College, read his annual report. There has been a i:r uil'vini; increase of public interest iii the college during the year. Sevirdte w sihoi-Is have been addi d and ih re has In en a steady growth in all tie' deptii'tim nts, The third day was a sial cbii liy in i xi:min -tii ns f elon-acrr On die iomih day the following delegates were elected to the General Conference : Lay delegates; D. W. Pain, Rev B. F. Dixon. C. W. Tillett, J. W. Baunev, W. H. Odell, J.S.Carr, J. A. Udell, L). 1! Nicholson Clerical: Revs. J. R. Brooks, J A. CuiuiinL'gim, F. L Keid, V. A. Sh rp.-, W. S Black. J. E. Maun, H. T Hudson, F. D.Swindell. The Bishop addressed tho Conference with reference to the Woman's Depart ment of Cbuich Extension. A resolution promising the hearty co operation of the Conference to the Wo man's Department of Chunh Extension was offered by Rev. L. L. Nash, nnd adopted. The Board of Trustees recommended the removal of Trinity College to Ral eigh and the resolution of Mr. J. W. Mauney to that effect was lassed after the question was debuted. Raleigh puur tH'tees to put up Luiluings worth ?35,-000.